The error means what it says. Are any other transactions accessing that table at the same time you are inserting rows?

What is your TransactionDeadlockDetectionTimeout? The default of 1200ms is very short. Are you using 5.0 or 5.1? On 5.1 you can try to increase it... we use 10000 (10 seconds) on our production systems.

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